jami rated Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents: 5 stars

Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
“As we go about our daily lives, caste is the wordless usher in a darkened theater, flashlight cast down in …
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“As we go about our daily lives, caste is the wordless usher in a darkened theater, flashlight cast down in …
In 2025, with the world descending into madness and anarchy, one woman begins a fateful journey toward a better future. …
Deep research on a vital topic, unfortunately analyzed by someone who said that of course farmers hoarded grain (while their neighbors starved to death).
Would be a good starting point for further investigation, but I didn't trust the analysis at all.
“As we go about our daily lives, caste is the wordless usher in a darkened theater, flashlight cast down in …
A groundbreaking study that radically alters our understanding of the Americas before the arrival of the Europeans in 1492.Traditionally, Americans …
Cambridge professor Emily Wilde is good at many things: She is the foremost expert on the study of faeries. She …
I think I'd enjoy this more if I were a more prickly gal. Being proposed to on the wrong part of the coast of Spain is not really a problem I can imagine focusing on.
In this wickedly funny cultural critique, the author of the critically acclaimed memoir and Hulu series Shrill exposes misogyny in …
I love the same thing about these stories as I love about Margaret Killjoy's podcasts: hope in the face of plenty of reasons to despair. As an added bonus, there's wonderful love stories throughout this book, some of them new ways for this old lady to think about love.
Discworld's only demonology hacker, Eric, is about to make life very difficult for the rest of Ankh-Morpork's denizens. This would-be …
Two American couples, just out of college, enjoy a pleasant, lazy beach holiday together in Mexico. On an impulse, they …
Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness is an autobiographical work by American writer Edward Abbey, originally published in 1968. …